[email protected] www.ukcolumn.org Docherty Chronology This document provides a concise chronology of events in the Docherty case, extracted from the UK Column Docherty Interview transcripts and other publications by the Dochertys. See also the companion document ‘Docherty Personae’. Date Event Place Persons Notes 2000 The Dochertys Teacher Janice McLaren, Brian Brian and Janice teach together in Glasgow. first meet Training Docherty College, Scotland 2000 – 2014 Various teaching Glasgow, Janice, Brian positions France, Singapore, Perth 2002 Alexandra born Hyndland, Alexandra Scotland 2007 Community Beat Fraserburgh Alan Low Officer North, Scotland 2008 Move back to Perth, Scotland Janice, Brian, Alexandra Scotland 2009 Sebastian born Perth, Scotland Sebastian 2010 Charlotte born Perth, Scotland Charlotte 2011 Brian stands in Dundee, Brian, Janice Brian stands as a Conservative candidate for the Scottish Holyrood Scotland Parliament election. Janice is his Election Agent and Campaign election Manager. 2014 Christian born Perth, Scotland Christian 2014 Moved for new Aberdeenshire, Fraserburgh Academy teaching job Scotland The Docherty Investigation Docherty Chronology 1 [email protected] www.ukcolumn.org 2014 Chartered Brian Management Institute Course 06/2014 Moved to East Lodge, Janice, Brian, Alex, Dochertys rent a two-bed cottage on Viscount Petersham’s Crimonmogate Crimonmogate, Sebastian, Charlotte, Crimonmogate Estate. Scotland Christian 08/2014 Alleged East Lodge Alan Low Next-door neighbour Alan Low visits. When he learns of paedophile Sebastian’s autistic condition he shocks Brian by demanding makes his access to the child, offering £25,000 for this. He insists that Brian demand will not deny him this demand and makes a series of threats when Brian does so. Following this the Dochertys’ cars are vandalised, the house is broken into, men are heard loitering outside at night. The greenhouse is booby trapped and panes of glass fall down on Charlotte’s head. Mail goes missing. 04/08/2016 E-mail to NCA is not interested, requests address & ‘phone number, National Crime suggests Brian contacts the local Police. Agency 08/08/2014 Meeting with Crimonmogate Kerry ? Petersham eventually shows up an hour and a half late and Viscount House, Scotland Viscount Petersham becomes angry when he learns that the National Crime Agency Petersham has already been contacted. Petersham states that Alan Low is a very good friend, contradicting his prior claim that he neither knew nor approved of him. Petersham makes clear threats to get police and social services to ‘deal with’ them if they report this to the police. Petersham makes to evict the Dochertys. The meeting ends on bad terms. 08/08/2014 Phone call to Call Centre Sgt Gilbert Buchan At about 5 pm Brian speaks to Sgt Buchan who instructs him to Police attend Peterhead Police Station to meet officers who were ‘just the job’. 08/08/2014 Emergency Crimonmogate Viscount Petersham At about 6 pm, Alan Low drives to the Viscount’s residence at meeting House, Scotland Alan Low high speed, followed by a long stream of expensive cars. There many others appears to be an emergency meeting behind closed gates. Very unusual activity. The Docherty Investigation Docherty Chronology 2 [email protected] www.ukcolumn.org 08/08/2014 Meeting with Peterhead PC Kathryn Lamont Sometime after 7 pm Brian attends Peterhead Police station and Police Police Station and one other gives his statement to PC Lamont and one other. Brian’s statement is taken but left unsigned. 08/08/2014 Meeting with Fraserburgh Sgt Buchan, Viscount At the same time, Petersham and Low meet with Buchan at the Police Police Station Petersham, Alan Low nearer Police station in Fraserburgh. 08/08/2014 Viscountess visits East Lodge Viscountess Petersham At the same time, Viscountess Petersham calls at East Lodge, shouting through the letterbox and banging on windows. Janice decides not to answer. Later, the Viscountess picks Alan Low up and drives him to her house, where he is presumed to have stayed overnight. 09/08/2014 Police call East Lodge Sgt Buchan Buchan and Lamont call at East Lodge. Buchan spends half an PC Lamont hour trying to persuade the Dochertys that there is no substance to their allegation. Buchan refuses to inspect the booby-trapped greenhouse, Lamont stands in silence shaking, hanging her head in shame or embarrassment. Buchan then focusses on Janice and the children’s details. The next week Lamont goes on leave for two weeks as does Buchan immediately upon her return. 11/08/2014 Excavation at Crimonmogate Alan Low Low hires a digger and excavates Crimonmogate Estate at night. (w/c) night Estate A large curtain-sided van shuttles back and forth without lights. 18~22/08/2014 Social Services East Lodge Two social workers Two social workers call, apparently in the belief that there had visit (identities not stated) been an issue with children. They discount the paedophile allegations. (same day) Phone call to David O’Neill Brian phones to speak to the Regional Manager, who refuses to Social Services take his call. (soon after) E-mail to Social David O’Neill Brian asks why O’Neill had sent two social workers to the Services Docherty house. (soon after) E-mail from David O’Neill O’Neill responds, stating that PC Lamont had submitted a Social Services Concern Report about the Docherty family, covering four areas: children isolated; children not in education; parents obsessed with paedophiles; parents delusional & mentally unbalanced. (soon after) Home Education David O’Neill Brian sent copies of the written permission to educate Alex at Certificate sent Ritchie Johnson, home to these three persons, recorded delivery. Although signed out “children’s reporter” for, all addressees subsequently decline to acknowledge receipt. The Docherty Investigation Docherty Chronology 3 [email protected] www.ukcolumn.org (soon after) Social Services Social Services start demanding an assessment – ominous given request an experiences to date. Dochertys ask for time to engage legal ‘assessment’ representation but every solicitor they approach declines their case. (soon after) Phone call with PC Lamont PC Lamont is clearly ignorant of the Concern Report that she had PC Lamont allegedly sent to Social Services. Her original report was about their concerns over Alan Low, anti-social behaviour, men in garden at night, banging noises, greenhouse, dead animals, etc. Lamont phones back later, very spooked, and asks to meet the Dochertys, with her Union rep (why?). The Dochertys decline. 05/09/2014 Holiday in Ireland Nenagh, Co. Docherty family They spend the time phoning Scottish Police and Social Services Tipperary, and assembling information. Ireland 10/09/2014 E-mail from Inspector Graham Cordner The e-mail asks them to report to the nearest Police station, Police Scotland requests their address and says the Police want to visit the Dochertys at home to check that their children are OK. 12/09/2014 Gardaí visit Nenagh Two Gardaí officers Two Gardaí show up at 10 pm demanding to see the children, which they do. They state that Interpol had located them and that the family was classified as an Extreme / Urgent case. They are disturbed to learn the true story but don’t want to help. They instruct the Dochertys to report to Social Services the following morning. 12/09/2014 Relocation Achill, Co. The family immediately pack and leave for a new location. Mayo, Ireland 11/2014 Dossier sent to British Government The Dochertys send a 77-page dossier containing 15 documents, British which the British Government simply forwards to Police Scotland Government and Aberdeenshire Council. 11/2014 Cross-border Enniskillen, Police The Dochertys drive to their bank in Enniskillen and from there surveillance Northern are followed by a plain clothes policeman all the 200 miles back Ireland to to Castlebar then all round Tesco. This was later confirmed in Castlebar, Co. court by social worker Mary Malee. Mayo, Ireland The Docherty Investigation Docherty Chronology 4 [email protected] www.ukcolumn.org 12/2014- International task Scotland, Scottish and Irish Scottish and Irish Governments orchestrate an international task 01/2015 force Ireland Governments force, meeting on four occasions between late Nov – early Jan. The goal – to remove the children and section1 the parents. Involves massive surveillance, house-breaking and monitoring. 28/01/2015 Children seized Achill Four police Without prior warning, four police (two armed) and two social and two social workers workers from Galway show up at 8 am and burst in. Lots of aggressive shouting and shoving. No court or legal documentation. Legal representation and constitutional rights are denied. The intruders demand an immediate assessment under threat of an Emergency Care Order. They break their promise that the children could be accompanied by a parent, and grill the two girls throughout the hour long journey. 28/01/2015 Emergency Care Castlebar Mary Malee Mary Malee then breaks her promise by immediately obtaining Order obtained Hospital an Emergency Care Order. Malee informs the parents that the children passed the assessment but will be taken into care regardless, based on information from Scotland. She reveals that the entire Social Services department of 22 social workers has been cleared to work on the family as their “number one priority”. Police frogmarch the Dochertys around the hospital. Malee shouts at Alex saying that they would never see their parents again unless they showed her more respect. Charlotte is so traumatised she is ‘too sad to cry’. They treat autistic Sebastian as subhuman and drug his juice to subdue him. All day long the children get nothing to eat until around 7 pm. The authorities break their promise to allow goodbyes and explanations – the four children including three month old Christian are taken away, shouting for their parents. The next day Alexandra witnesses a social worker striking her sister.